Cutting Room for October 12

Film Streams (filmstreams.org) isn’t satisfied with entertaining you; they also want to make you live forever. At least, that’s what I assume the intent is behind their film series titled “Forever Young.” Featuring family and children’s films, the series is underway with Make Believe, a coming-of-age story about young magicians, already screening on Saturdays, Sundays and Thursdays through Oct 20. The immortality-inducing flicks continue throughout this fall and include The Secret of Roan Inish, A Cat in Paris, The Goonies, It’s a Wonderful LifeandThe Polar Express, which terrifies me with its soulless, dead-eyed Tom Hanks animation. I should probably point out that a transfer of immortality may not be guaranteed, but definitely ask at the box office.

In yet another sign that the idea well has been bled dry, the writers behind Toy Story, Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, are possibly working on a big-screen adaptation of Farmville, the once-captivating Facebook game where you grow things you can’t ever eat. In other words, two guys are writing a movie about farming.

Johnny Depp’s descent into self-parody continues, as he is producing and possibly starring as the lead in a biography of Dr. Seuss. Although it is highly likely that the real Theodor Geisel was a reserved man who dressed in casual clothing, we can all look forward to a version of him with pasty skin, garish gothic attire and likely some kind of highly affected speech pattern. No word on when Tim Burton will announce his participation.

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